Initially, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio empathized with and defended the police.
“The folks who were converging on that police car did the wrong thing to begin with and they created an untenable situation.
I wish the officers would have found a different approach, but let’s begin at the beginning, the protesters in that video did the wrong thing to surround that police car.
“There is no situation where a police vehicle should drive into a crowd of New Yorkers.
We’ve had Molotov cocktails thrown at police cars while the police officers are in it.”
